Problem with pictures in Safari 16.4

Someone over in MacRumors recommended disabling "GPU Process: Canvas rendering" and "GPU Process: DOM rendering" in Safari->Develop->Experimental Features to solve the problem.

It seems to have worked so far for me after clearing the cache & cookies, quitting Safari, and restarting.

We'll see!

None of the workarounds fix anything on my end. I'm on M1 MacBook Pro 16 Max completely topped off, Monterey 12.6.6 and Safari 16.5 (17615.2.9.11.6, 17615). I have not updated to Ventura as my system is rock solid for the Adobe Suite, which is my bread and butter. Firefox and Chrome are unfortunately more stable than this sloppy coding.

I've had the same experience... but coincidentally, a couple of days ago, I turned off both the dynamic desktop feature as well as the screen saver (just using a still photo as desktop)... and this has had 2 quite different effects: 1) no longer have distorted pics in safari, and 2) iCloud functions a bit more efficiently. Have no clue why. But maybe it helps...

Exactamente, me ocurre lo mismo, en Safari Versión 16.5 (17615.2.9.11.6, 17615), tiene mas anomalías, no carga las imágenes, se queda safari como entrecortado. Tal como expresa, hay veces que reinicio el router, por si fuera de la linea, y no una vez, otras veces limpio el Mac ,restauro y el final firefox para poder ver TVE play, etc….

Espero con ello que verifiquéis estos punto y comas que tiene .Gracias

This worked for me on Washington Post.

I disabled Lazy image loading and Lazy iframe loading, then emptied cache, and opened a new Washington Post page in a Private Window. The images did not become distorted when viewing or selecting.

Any luck after a restart without a tick in the "Reopen windows when logging back in" box?

Someone mentioned pressing the shift key when opening Safari, but who knows.

I am not seeing the issue anymore so my fingers are crossed it doesn't return. I did the whole enchilada of SMC/ NVRAM/Safe Mode/ starts after my last post. Of course, I've no idea if it helped.

Same thing happening here. I just updated yesterday to Monterey 12.6.8 and Safari 16.6. Chrome seems to be OK. Pictures either split or hazy like others have posted. Just started recently and is completely random. Really annoying. I tried the fixes suggested and it still occurs.

Also installed the newest update Version 16.6 (17615.3.12.11.3, 17615). Still occurring. Only happened once today on one site. Just jinxed myself I think! lol It stopped after I logged off and logged in later. But it still occurred. Obviously it is an Apple/Safari problem. Does anyone from Apple monitor this site? Thankfully it is not widespread; for me at least. Good luck to all. If anyone has any new ideas please post.

Updated to the latest Monterey 12.6.8 and the latest Safari update 16.6 (17615.3.12.11.3, 17615) on an M1 MacBook Pro Max topped off and I'm still getting these scrambled images. Continues to not happen in other more competent browsers.

Contacted Apple support and after talking to 4 or 5 different techs a supervisor finally contacted me and told me that since my iMac can no longer be updated past Monterey that any problems that arise will no longer be supported. I guess we either change browsers or buy a new Mac.

Yes, it now seems to be resolved. It's interesting that many people were blaming the hardware but it turned out to be a software update that was required. Perhaps we will never know quite what lay behind the problem.

Hi! So thankful this thread exists. I thought I was going crazy. Sad to say, I've tried everything listed in this entire thread. I'm running on the following: MacBook pro (2012), 2.3 GHz quad-core Intel Core i7, 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3, with NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2 GB. I am up to date on all software and system updates, including the Safari 17.0. This issue showed up about 2-3 months ago for me, but even with all of the things listed in this thread, no change. It's random on what sites it will do it and when it will happen. Anyone out there still having this issue? Additional advice to try? Thank you in advance!

Well, after some additional digging, I did find out that my computer has been deemed obsolete....so, nothing I do will make it work better. My computer will no longer be supported as of the end of this year. Hopefully anyone else looking at this thread can compare their computer to mine and see if they, too, need to purchase a new one. So sad...this computer has worked brilliantly for over 10 years.

I just tried disabling "Lazy Loading" in Safari 16.6, on Monterey 12.6.8

Initially it seems to work like a charm. This is very quick and easy to disable in the Develop Menu.

I will update this post if anything changes.

It's also happening on the National Geographic website too.

It looks cool, but it's not what i'm hoping to see there ...